Although this Brookstone product is no longer available for purchase, it's one of those products that was better off as a DIY project than something you'd undoubtedly pay more than its actual worth from a retailer anyhow. We suspect you could make your own quite simply using a airtight sealing plastic case, a low density rectangular piece of packing foam, and a 3" diameter biscuit cutter to press out a spot to safely keep your bulbs until you need them (we almost broke a CFL a couple nights ago while hurriedly removing it from its cardboard packaging, perhaps adding to our desire to safely consolidate our bulbs into something that will prevent accidental breakage). How and where do you keep your light bulbs in your home?
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I keep the bulbs in the packaging they come in. Case closed.
Though, I know several anal retentive organizational freaks who'll positively orgasm at the thought that something like this actually exists.
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Modtramp, LOL! too funny. I second your post!
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The package I bought them in.
People really do things like this?
I love people. They're so inventive.
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This is a really good product to make if you've ever "collected" lightbulbs from unguarded public lamps.
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Gregory, I'm hearing that we should skip the CFLs. Dimmed halogens last ten years, supply prettier light, are just as energy conserving as CFLs, and aren't toxic if they break. Because of the latter, there's no real need for special storage containers. You can use the original packaging. Doesn't that sound more green all around?
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I keep 'em in the box they come in. I put those boxes in a small plastic crate only because my cabinet doesn't have enough space not to contain them in something. Seriously. This is too much. Who cares?
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>Dimmed halogens last ten years, supply prettier
>light, are just as energy conserving as CFLs, and
>aren't toxic if they break.
Dimmed halogens most certainly aren't more energy efficient than CFL's, especially when you factor in the energy lost in the dimmer circuit (much of it converted to often unwanted heat), the cost of buying a halogen lamp larger than the wattage you require (or an array of smaller lamps), and the risk that halogen lamps pose (they get extraordinarily hot). For example, a 100 watt tungsten glass halogen bulb has an overall luminous efficacy of 16.7 lumens per watt. A 9 to 26 watt compact fluorescent will have a luminous efficacy of 60-72 lumens per watt. No dimmer is going to makeup that kind of a difference (the most efficient incandescent lighting sources - expensive projector bulbs - have an efficacy of just 35 lumens per watt).
Target just started selling GE's new CFLs which are the exact same size and shape as a conventional 60 watt bulb. Don't know what kind of light they produce (they claim to be warm white), but the form factor is killer.
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I store my bulbs in a plastic tub WITHOUT the foam. We have a bunch of sizes (night lights, lamp bulbs, three-ways bulbs, can light bulbs...) and they peacefully coexist in the tub. No breakage so far. (I keep the orignal packaging unless it is too bulky.) The tub is on a closet shelf, and we take down the whole tub to select a bulb, since it's very light weight.
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